Addressing Comments Confusion

Posted by Brian Tubbs May 29, 2008

Stand-alone discussions are being phased out. I had nothing to do with this. It's a Suite101 decision.

For a brief time, people are allowed to make a single post by starting a new discussion. But no replies are possible. I suspect that this will go away soon, because having a several dozen one-post discussion threads makes little sense. It's a glitch, that I'm sure will be corrected soon.

Discussions are now encouraged to be article-based via the new comments system. In other words, you can make comments directly after most articles. Some writers have chosen to disable comments for certain articles. I have NOT disabled comments. ALL of my articles are open to comments.

As for blogs...the comment feature is NOT available. One of our frequent discussion contributors here has asked why I am not allowing comments to my recent blog post on "Faith and Reason." The answer is that I can't allow comments to that. The comments feature is presently NOT available for blog posts. It's only available for articles, which are different. So, right now, you can't make a comment to a blog post - ANY blog post. I'm told that this will be changing soon.

If you wish to respond to a blog post of mine, I recommend that you find an article written on a related or similar topic, and post your response there (citing the blog).

I know this is cumbersome, especially in the transition. But, again, I had NOTHING to do with these changes. Nevertheless, I can assure you that Suite101 is working hard to complete this transition and address some of the glitches and issues that have arisen during it.